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Position Summary:

Under the direction of the Director of Population Health Analytics and the Executive Director ACO, the ACO Analyst for the ACO Department is responsible for providing analysis for the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) or other defined Value Based Initiatives / alternate payment arrangements. This position is responsible for successful preparation and analysis of timely and accurate monthly reporting of the ACO’s key metrics, financial position, quarterly & annual reporting. This role will provide support and network-wide accountable care financial performance analysis to deliver results against population cost targets and quality measures for covered populations. The ACO Analyst is required to understand and apply knowledge of health care reform, managed care contracting and historical and cutting edge reimbursement methods to generate complex, customized analysis and research deliverables. These deliverables are used for key decision making with material financialand clinical implications. The incumbent must be proactive in identifying issues and opportunities to enhance data management and reporting capabilities and is responsible for both detailed and high-level problem solving. He or she will focus on data analysis, database development and management, data extraction and reporting from various internal and external systems.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities of the Job * Manage a large set of data (some are raw flat file data), develop and adopt progressive models for reporting and reconciliation. Review data, generate concise reports, interpret results from analysis / reports and make actionable recommendations to non-financial / non-technical audience. Using a triple aim approach and deliver results to clinical operational and financial audiences. * Analyze quarterly and annual reports and financial statements from various payers including projection, reconciliation, trends, and research outliers / patterns. * Create monthly report packages and other performance metrics (i.e. Visibility Board, Management Summaries) to distribute to the various business operations including monthly cost analysis to identify high cost areas. * Analyzes monthly payer reports. * Ability to complete work independently and collaborate with internal and external team members and participate in ACO and/or related meetings, committees or functions. * Able to design and implement dashboard reports according to business requirements and technical specifications including generating charts and graphs that foster an understanding of actionable opportunities. * Excellent interpersonal communication (one-on-one and group) and customer service with ability to work both independently and as part of a team. * Strong analytical skills, with a proven ability to develop and document resolution of complex issues and understand and display unwarranted variation and trend analysis, examine irregularities in data. * Extremely organized, self-motivated individual able to handle fluctuating volumes of work, able to prioritize work to meet deadlines. This includes estimation of effort, time management and develop realistic timelines for projects and tasks. * Automate / enhance processes using technical skills. * Work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference to apply concepts to actionable recommendations for ACO Clinical Case Managers / Coordinators, medical staff and leadership. * Utilizes benchmarking data to evaluate current processes as they are related to operations. * Prepares forecasts based on current reimbursement trends and information gathered from internal / external sources. * Work with external actuary on (and/or possibly provide) actuarial analysis including but not limited to forecasting, pricing, reserving (IBNR unpaid claim cost estimates), trending, valuation, variance and risk management from multiple data sources. * Ability to be a liaison within the MemorialCare business segments and external partners and/or vendor for analysis of actuarial, financial, utilization and cost to Produce deep dive analysis to facilitate understanding of medical cost levels and trends and facilitate strategy development. * Research and analyze historical revenue and cost data to project budget for the next fiscal year. * Develop, maintain and distribute ad-hoc reports and financial models as needed.